Turkmenistan’s internet control plane experienced a two-hour disruption on Saturday, August 30, 2026. The event, which began at 13:35 UTC, involved a degradation in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal. Connectivity was reported restored by 15:35 UTC.
Technical Details
The disruption recorded a severity score of 288. The BGP signal, which measures the visibility of network prefixes in the global routing table, showed a median prefix count drop of 3% from its peak. The event comprised two distinct periods: a 55-minute period starting at 13:35 UTC with a severity score of 174, followed by a 45-minute period starting at 14:50 UTC with a score of 114. Other network measurement signals, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and traffic volume forecasts, showed minor fluctuations but no significant correlated outages during the observation window from 10:30 to 16:30 UTC.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
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